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Stefan Edberg

The tennisplayer is nowadays a legend in his sport. I met him
myself in France in 1987. I was 8 years old. He and the other members of the
Swedish Daviscup team were playing the Daviscup against France. However, before
the training I met them in the lobby of their hotel in Fréjus. My father knew
the Swedish captain of the team so we could watch them training.After that
Stefan has been one of my idols. I play tennis a lot myself. But now to the
story about Stefan Edberg.

Saw the ad

His career started when the local paper in Västervik ( the town where he was
born ) had an advertisement about mini-tennis in the early 70s. It said ”Day of
tennis”.Luckily his mother Barbro read the article ...

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wanted to quit,and so
did I. But my trainer convinced me to continue, Stefan says with a smile on his
face. The young Edberg soon became taken by the sport. Soon he played matches
with the boys' team, and outside his home he played fantasy Davis Cup-matches. In
the sommer holidays he almost lived at the tennis court. At the age of ten he
stopped playing his two other sports, football and icehockey, and concentrated
everything on tennis. Soon he won his first tournament, ”Ostkustenspärla,” a
very memorable victory for him.

Star even in school

But a couple of years went by before he ”dared” to go in for tennis full time.
He was in the ninth grade as took the big step and gave tennis the big chance.
-I felt I had a serious chance of becoming a worldplayer. Because I had
just won JEM and taken a set on Mats Wilander who was a professional player,
Stefan says. But it couldn't have been an easy choice, because Stefan was
also a very good student with an average about 4,3 after the ...

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Added: 12/30/2004 01:08:46 AM
Category: Biographies
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